Finders Keepers is an extant 1928 American silent military comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and Otis B. Thayer and starring Laura La Plante and John Harron. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was prepared late in 1928. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film may or may not be a remake of a 1921 film Finders Keepers singularly directed by Thayer.
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Cast
Laura La Plante as Barbara Hastings
John Harron as Carter Brooks
Edmund Breese as Colonel Hastings
Eddie Phillips as 2nd Lt. Kenneth Purdy
Arthur Rankin as Pvt. Blondy Jones
Jack Oakie as B.B. Brown
Joseph P. Mack as Chaplain
Edgar Dearing as Seargeant
William Gorman as Bozo
S. May Stone as Mrs. Satterlee
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Andy Devine as Doughboy / Gate Guard
Richard "Skeets" Gallagher as Soldier who pursues Blondy
Music
The sound version featured a theme song entitled “Finders Keepers (Losers Weepers)” by Paul Corbel and Merton H. Bories.
Preservation
This silent version of the film is preserved in The Library of Congress from elements preserved and prepared by Universal. Its trailer also exists in the Library of Congress.